Directors' Dealings

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC
24 January 2000


                      J D Wetherspoon plc
                               

J D Wetherspoon plc announces that the following directors
have elected to take up ordinary shares in the company in
relation to the 1999 Scrip Dividends:


                      1999 Interim      1999 Final
                      ------------      ----------
                                                  
Timothy R Martin               127          71,620
Brian R Jervis                  91             140
John Hutson                    380             641
Nienke Hutson                                     
(wife to J Hutson)              69             117
Suzanne Baker                   33             143
Jim Clarke                      19              33